forcible-feeble Meaning, Definition & Usage

For"ci*ble-fee`ble adjective

Etymology

From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry IV.," to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet "forcible."

Definitions

1. Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.

   He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.